Session 4. Closing Plenary
| Wednesday, September 30, 2026 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Diamond 1 & 2 |
Speaker
Lindsey Riback
Project Director
Albert Einstein College Of Medicine
Feasibility and acceptability of a peer-led, status-neutral, post-incarceration HIV intervention: preliminary findings from the DEST2nation pilot study
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMBiography
Lindsey R. Riback, MPH is a Project Director whose research focuses on the intersection of Hepatitis C and HIV prevention, substance use disorder and criminal legal system involvement in New York and Kenya. Her work includes identifying treatment and prevention strategies that respect individual choice and circumstances.
Dr Christopher Hoffmann
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University
From incarceration to community: Re-entry goals of adults living with HIV in South African correctional facilities
3:45 PM - 4:00 PMBiography
Ms Rebecca Gore
Author, Advocate/Barrister of the High Court of South Africa and Research Associate at the Centre for Law & Society at the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
From Evidence to Justice: Advocacy for Humane, Health-Promoting Prisons
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Rebecca Gore is a barrister, writer, and academic in South Africa. As a legal researcher to Inspecting Judge, Justice Edwin Cameron, of the national oversight body, she visited and reported on conditions in prisons. She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard and co-authored a book titled Behind Prison Walls: Unlocking a Safer South Africa with Edwin Cameron. Rebecca has also written about how the law responds to women who kill their abusers, carceral period poverty, abortion access in prisons, and HIV/AIDS behind bars.
Dr John May
President
Health through Walls
From evidence to action: transforming prison health systems for infectious diseases to advance justice
4:30 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr. John May is an Internal Medicine physician practicing in jails and prisons for more than 30 years. He serves as Chief Medical Officer for Centurion Health in the USA, Board Member of the North American Chapter of the International Corrections and Prisons Association, and Chair of the International Committee of the American Correctional Association. Dedicated to equitable care for incarcerated people, he co-founded Health through Walls in 2005, an international NGO to assist prison health programs in low- and middle-income countries.